1831-36 Sails with The Beagle 1837-45 Private notebooks on evolution First bouts of (chronic & lifelong) illness Publications on geography (coral reefs, volcanic islands, shelves of Glen Roy) and zoology (Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle) winter 1838 Darwin named Secretary of Geological Society Jan. 1839 Elected fellow of Royal Society of London Married to Emma Wedgwood summer 1839 Publishes Journal and Remarks from the Beagle’s voyage 1846-54 Barnacle studies (beginning of “Darwin’s Delay”) 1851 Daughter Anne (age 10) dies, possibly of tuberculosis June 1858 Darwin receives Alfred Russel Wallace’s paper on evolution Baby Charles Waring dies of scarlet fever July 1858 Wallace’s and Darwin’s papers read at Linnaean Society Nov. 1859 Origin of Species published